Arias by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Smetana, Dvořák, Moniusko, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Szymanovsky.

Mariusz Kwiecień - Baritone
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Łukasz Borowicz - Conductor

Track #1:
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1840-1893]
Yevgeniy Onegin Op. 24 / Eugene Onegin [1879]
Vy mne pisali... Kogda by zhizn /
You wrote to me... Had I wished to be bound by domestic life (4'48)

Track #2:
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1840-1893]
Iolanta Op. 69 [1892]
Robert's aria:
Kto mozhet sravnitsa s Matil'daj majej/
Who can compare with my Mathilde (2'21)

Track #3:
Sergei Rachmaninov [1873-1943]
Aleko TN ii/70 [1892]
Ves' tabar spit / The camp is asleep
and cavatina: Kak nezhna priklan'as'ka mne / How tenderly she caressed (6'17)

Track #4:
Bedrich Smetana
Certova stena / The Devil's Wall JB 1:122 [1882]
Vok's aria: Jen Jediana (4'00)

Track #5:
Stanisław Moniuszko [1819-1872]
Halka [1847-57]
Janusz's aria: Pewna, jak wiatr wzdycha / As sure as the wind sighs (2'49)

Track #6:
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1840-1893]
Mazeppa [1881-3]
Mazeppa's Arioso: O Mariya, Mariya! (5'04)

Track #7:
Antonín Dvořák [1841-1904]
Selma sedlák / The Cunning Peasant B. 67 Op. 37 [1877]
Prince's aria (4'19)

Track #8:
Stanisław Moniuszko [1819-1872]
Straszny Dwór / The Haunted Manor [1861-4]
Miecznik's aria Act 2: Kto z mych dziewek serce której / Who of my maidens whose heart. (3'17)

Track #9:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [1844-1908]
Sadko [1896]
Song of the Venetian guest: Gorod kamennyi, gorodam vsem mat? (4'43)

Track #10:
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1840-1893]
Yevgeniy Onegin Op. 24 / Eugene Onegin
Uzhel' ta samaya Tatyana / Can it be the same Tatyana? (2'42)

Track #11:
Stanisław Moniuszko [1819-1872]
Verbum Nobile / The word of a nobleman [1860]
Nakaz niech ozywcze slonko / Come, let envigorating sun.. (1'49)

Track #12:
Aleksandr Borodin [1833-1887]
Knyaz' Igor' / Prince Igor [1890]
Ni sna, ni otdyha izmuchennaj dushe / No sleep, no rest. (7'52)

Track #13
Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937]
Król Roger / King Roger Op.46 [1918-24]
Final scene, hymn to Apollo (3'56)